First Call for Papers for EMNLP 2011

SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2011. The conference will be held on July 27–31, 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The conference will consist of three days of full paper presentations followed by two days of workshops.

Conference URL: http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/emnlp2011/

We solicit papers on all areas of interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to:

* Phonology and Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Segmentation
* Syntax and Parsing
* Semantics
* Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
* Summarization and Generation
* NLP-related Machine Learning: theory, methods and algorithms
* Machine Translation
* Information Retrieval and Question Answering
* Information Extraction
* Spoken Language Processing
* Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications
* Multilinguality
* Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
* NLP for the Web

Important Dates

* Paper submission deadline: March 23, 2011
* Author response period: May 7–10, 2011
* Acceptance notification: May 25, 2011
* Camera-ready copy due: June 20, 2011
* Papers available on-line: July 23, 2011
* Conference meeting: July 27–31, 2011

All deadlines refer to 11:59pm Samoa time (UTC/GMT −11 hours)

Submissions

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL 2011 proceedings. Each paper may consist of up to nine (9) pages of content, and any number of additional pages with references only. Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Please use the official ACL 2011 style files. We reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these styles, including letter size and font size restrictions.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...”. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Separate identification information is required, and will be part of the web submission process.

Submission/reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. Submissions must be uploaded onto the system by the submission deadlines. Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed.

Submissions presented at EMNLP should mainly contain new material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must disclose this information at submission time. Please list all other meetings where the paper has been submitted at the end of the abstract field on the submission site.

Committee

General Chair

* Paola Merlo University of Geneva

Programme Co-Chairs:

* Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Mark Johnson Macquarie University

Workshops Chair:

* Marie Candito Paris Diderot University

Publication Chair:

* Wanxiang Che Harbin Institute of Technology

Local Arrangements:

* Miles Osborne University of Edinburgh
* Bonnie Webber University of Edinburgh